On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, David Howe wrote: > It doesn't though - that is the point. I am not sure if it is simply > that there are timestamps in the final executable, but Visual C (to give > a common example, as that is what the windows PGP builds compile with) > will not give an identical binary, even if you hit "rebuild all" twice > in close succession and compare the two outputs, nothing having changed.
I've just verified this also occurs on OpenSSL under RH 7.3 (gcc --version 2.96). I haven't done a binary diff, but I'm also suspecting a time stamp. Can anyone shed some light on this?